Art 7 Newsletter Unit 1 Swoboda 25_26

ART 7 CHRONICLE 2025

UNIT 1 NEWSLETTER

Welcome to Art 7

ART MATERIALS

RESOURCES

UNIT OVERVIEW

ARTIST HIGHLIGHTS

STAR ARTISTS

ART ACTIVITIES

ART MATERIALS

Comet's Closet

provided by CCA

24 ct acrylic paint4 oz white glueair-dry clayjumbo charcoal stick 3pkmanila foldersnylon paint brush setoil pastelspaint tray with lidsoft pastelsstudent drawing settissue paper squareswhite conte crayon strathmore drawing paper

MATERIALS PROVIDED

For this class, you should have received an art kit in the mail. This kit should have arrived with the rest of your school supplies. If you are missing your art supplies, please have a parent or guardian call 1-844-590-2864, option 4 for curriculum. They will have you confirm your address and ship them out to you ASAP. These items are not yet on Comet's Closet.

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen”

LEONARDO DA VINCI

CONTACT ME

(717) 850-3828 ext 33172cswoboda@ccaeducate.me book time with me

During Unit 1, we will review what we know in art, practice expectations in the course this semester, and introduce ourselves through some Name Art!

UNIT 1

Unit 1 Resource Padlet

exploring art

In this unit we will focus on our elements of art and create an someartwork with those and our names. We will talk about different fonts and how we can personalize our artwork to fit our own personal styles.

ELEMENTSOF ART

The elements of art are used every time you make art! Becoming familiar with these terms will help you talk and write about art.

ARTWORK HIGHTLIGHTS

Our focus this unit it about the elements of art, not specific artists. Here are some artworks we will view. Do you think you can identify any elements of art?

elements of art

• line
• shape
• space
• form
• color
• value
• texture

STAR ARTISTS

featured artworks

Here is where we will highlight student work that has gone above and beyond from the previous unit! Since this is our first newsletter, we have not yet received any student work. The unit 2 newsletter will highlight student work from unit 1.

coming soon

More fun

Picasso Painting Puzzle

Unit 1 Extra Credit Opportunities Below

1.2-Art Portfolio Designs-Post your completed art to inspire others.

1.3-Animal Sketches or Elements of Art Sketch-Post

XYZ TOY Google Arts and Culture

1.4-Post your completed Nameart Drawings to get crits from friends next lesson. Closes end of unit 1.

1.5- Critique a friend's art with specific, helpful, positive critique. Add comments under their post. Closes 1 week after lesson 1.5.

EXTRA CREDIT

There are many opportunities to earn extra credit throughout the semester. Each closes at the end of the unit except critiques which stay open for 1 week after unit. See the extra credit column of each unit resource padlet for more details!

“Every artist was first an amateur”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

ART ACTIVITIES